Shingle



Feb. 23,1926. 1,574,099

B. C. KRIDLER SHINGLE Filed March 1925 a INVENTOR J eC dfl'd/er 2M, ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 23, 1926.

um'rso STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

BERNIE c. KRIDLER, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 CAMPBELL WIRE srn- CIALTY worms, or sou'rn BEND, INnInNm-A conroaA IoN or INDIANA.

SHINGIJE.

To all whom itmay concern:

B it known that I, BERNIE C. KRIDLER, a citiz eiiof the United States, and resident of Chic go, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 1 Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a novel and improved form of shingle clip for securing shingles in. root construction; to provide a novel clip mounting construction in a shingle roofing; to provide a novel" combination of clip and shingle for roofing construction; to provide a novel clip anchoring means; t provide a novel shingle securing means; and generally to provide a novel and eficient clip and shingle construction, which is readily applicable, and which may be employed in any conventional roofing construction.

Dru/wings;

. Description. In Figure 1 the clip and shingle mounting is shown as applied to an open work roofing having spaced furring strips 10 disposed on supporting rafters 11, while in Figure 2 the mounting is shown as applied to a closed roofing wherein the roofing boards 12 are disposed incontinuous tight fitting relation side by side over the area of the roof.

Shingles employed in the roofing construction preferred by me are in. the form of shingle strips having a substantially rectangular body portion 13 with a plurality of substantially semi-hexagonal overlaps 1 1 extending from the weather edge thereof in spaced relation, leaving weather edge valleys 15 between the successive overlaps. Disposed in the median plane of each overlap and adjacent the inner edge 16, are transversely extending slots 17 cut in each shingle strip. i o

The shingles are secured to the roof by Application filed, march 21, 1925. s m 'No. 17,344.

means of clips formed of heavy wire strips bent intermediate their ends to form rela tively long shanks 18 having oppositely disposed right angular extensions 19 and 20 at each end, which extensions terminate in an external shingle binding tip 2-1 bent to engage over a shingle overlap, and in an anchor preng 22 bentreversely relative to the tip 21 and adapted to engage under a furring strip 10 as shown in Figure. 1, or under'the inner edge of a shingle strip, as shown in Figure 2.

Clips employed with the roofing construction using furring strips, have their extensions 20 sufliciently elongated so that the anchor prongs 22 may be engaged under the. furring strip, with the prong being inwardly bowed for spring tension against the under face of the strip.

In the closed roofing construction the extensions 20 are shortened and the prongs 22 engage under the inner edge of the shingle strlps.

each furring strip a clip is positioned with the shank resting on the upper face of the shingle and the extension 20 passed through the slot 17 with the anchor prong 22 engaged under the furring strip 10. As the next succeeding upper shingle is applied the extension 19 at the lower end of the clip shank 18, will engage the valley 15, and as the next succeeding shingle is laid the extension will engage the weather edge of the overlap 14 with the binding tip 21 extend ing thereover for bending down to bind the shingle. V a In roofing construction embodying the closed roof boards .a shingle strip is first laid and the clips applied at the inner edge. thereof with the extension 20 passed through the slot 17 and the anchor prong 22 engaged under the sh gle as shown in Figure 2.

vAs the next ucceeding shingle is applied,

23, with the nail disposed in close proximity to the clip shank adjacent the extension 19 and inwardly of the valley 15 so that the head thereof is completely covered by the overlap of the upper shingle. The nail 23 serves not only to anchor the shingles to the roof, but compresses the shingles against the clip shank 18 in position.

C'Zaim.

In a roofing construction, a series of shingle strips having a straight upper edge and a'plura-lity of spaced overlaps extending securely clamping the clip elongated slots in the upper portions thereof 20 andspaced inwardly of the upper edge ofl the strips,

said slots being disposed exactly series of fastening clips adapted for extension through said slots with portions lying between adjacent shingle layers and formed at opposite ends for engagement with a roof section and a plurality of upper successive shingle layers.

BERNIE C. KRIDLER.

in the median plane of each overlap, and a their imajor' 25 

